{"id":741,"date":"2011-03-09T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:14:00","slug":"why-is-the-dui-story-such-big-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Why is the (insert MLB player here) DUI story such big news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_742\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mickey-Mantle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-742\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-742\" title=\"MANTLE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mickey-Mantle-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mickey-Mantle-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mickey-Mantle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mickey-Mantle.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would a DUI arrest by Mickey Mantle have been such a big story?  Photo: AP file<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Why is ANY story about an athlete getting arrested for DUI that big of a news story?\u00a0 While I do understand the ink about <strong>Miguel Cabrera<\/strong>&#8216;s off-season <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/dailypitch\/post\/2011\/02\/tigers-first-baseman-miguel-cabrera-arrested-for-dui\/1?csp=34sports&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomSports-TopStories+%28Sports+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">DUI arrest<\/a> (since his Alcohol issues caused him to miss games in a critical series two years ago for his team), recently I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/mlb\/2011\/3\/1\/2023818\/miguel-cabrera-austin-kearns-adam-kennedy-dui\">this link<\/a> critiquing the reactions of three MLBers who got busted for DUI this past off-season (Cabrera, <strong>Austin Kearns<\/strong> and <strong>Adam Kennedy<\/strong>: side note is it ironic or just coincidental that the latter two are Nationals washouts?).\u00a0 Then late last week one <strong>Coco Crisp<\/strong> was <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/baseball\/mlb\/03\/02\/coco.crisp.dui.ap\/index.html\">arrested for DUI<\/a> as well.\u00a0 I began to wonder; why are these revelations such big news stories?<\/p>\n<p>Think about your job.\u00a0 You probably sit in an office and stare at a computer 8 hours a day.\u00a0 Your boss has no idea what you do the other 7-8 hours of your day, nor any idea what you do all weekend.\u00a0 You could have a massive drug problem, or get arrested on a friday night and spend the whole weekend in jail &#8230; but as long as you show back up at work Monday, don&#8217;t miss any work and don&#8217;t miss any deadlines\/don&#8217;t let it affect your work product &#8230; then who cares?<\/p>\n<p>I guess the real answer is something along the following.\u00a0 MLB players are celebrities now.\u00a0 They&#8217;re for the most part multi-millionaries and live lives that most Americans cannot comprehend.\u00a0 In today&#8217;s TMZ-inspired celebrity news cycle what used to pass as a personal matter is now rabidly reported as breaking, important news.\u00a0 Do I care that Coco Crisp tied a few drinks on last weekend and (like a moron) got into his car and drove?\u00a0 No, not really.\u00a0 It may show bad judgement on his part but it has nothing to do with his performance on the field.\u00a0 It certainly didn&#8217;t affect <strong>Wade Boggs<\/strong>&#8216; career (he was notorious for his beer drinking abilities, reportedly drinking &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/64millerlites.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/test.html\">50-60<\/a>&#8221; beers on cross country trips).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is ANY story about an athlete getting arrested for DUI that big of a news story?\u00a0 While I do understand the ink about Miguel Cabrera&#8216;s off-season DUI arrest (since his Alcohol issues caused him to miss games in a critical series two years ago for his team), recently I saw this link critiquing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}